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William Barclay

Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism, University of Glasgow; minister of the Church of Scotland

William Barclay (1907–1978) was a Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow. Writing in the mid-twentieth century, he devoted his career to making serious biblical scholarship accessible to ordinary readers, most famously through his Daily Study Bible commentaries on the New Testament, which remain in print decades after his death.

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“In the middle east, part of an individual’s wealth often consisted in fine and elaborate clothes. When Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, wished to make some forbidden profit out of Naaman, after his master had cured him, he asked him for a talent of silver and ch…”

The Gospel of Matthew, Volume 1: The New Daily Study Bible · Read in context →

“(iii) Hope looks to God. It faces God (Acts 24.15; I Peter 1.21; 3.5; I Tim. 5.5). The Christian is the man of hope because he keeps his eyes fixed on God. Augustine told a wretched man who thought of nothing but his sins, ‘Look away from yourself and look to …”

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